. >> reporter: willie brown has advice. find your own miniy majority. >> don't stay within the party. look for those five republicans who are mistreated by their leadership when they were in charge and they can now obviously gain favors. >> reporter: the chairman of the state republican party says leaders will be spectators over the next two years. >> there will be more job night, the economy down in two years, people will want answers. republicans not only need to have the answers but they have to spend the time in the districts, today. >> as for the governor his own party now has the ability to override his vetoes and the ability to raise taxes on their own. >> the only way to raise a tax is to ask the people. >> reporter: they say they will close the tax loopholes but their focus is not on increasing taxes the republicans call that a bluff. >> the first taxip crease, the next is never the last tax increase. >>reporter: the last time california had had a super majority was back in 1933. that time it was the republicans in